1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die » (Revised)

Stephen Jay Schneider is a film critic, scholar, and an author and editor of several books on films and filmmaking. Among his recent titles are 501 Movie Stars and 501 Movie Directors, both available in North America from Barron's.

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5TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION

"I have, by the way, seen 943 of the 1001 movies, and am carefully rationing the remaining titles to prolong my life."
--Roger Ebert

". . . a great motivating guide to cinema. After reading one of its engaging, often profound entries on a missed film, you want to run out and rent it."
--Dallas Morning News

"Both a fun stroll through some all-time favourites, and a guilty reminder of just how many great movies I haven't seen yet...."
--Aubrey Day, Total Film (U.K.)

"As edited by Steven Jay Schneider, it makes for addictive browsing, and likewise features top quality stills."
--Film Review (U.K.)

"One of the best desert island books about art house film in print."
--The Times (London)

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With over 750,000 copies sold worldwide in twenty-four languages, the newly revised and updated 5th Anniversary edition of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die celebrates the great and groundbreaking, classic and cult must-see movies of all time and offers a treasure trove of incisive, witty, and revealing insights into the world of film. Illustrated with hundreds of stunning film stills, portraits, and poster art, 1001 Movies brings together the most significant movies from all genres, from action to western, through animation, comedy, documentary, musical, noir, romance, thriller, short, and sci-fi. The selection includes movies from over 30 countries and spans more than a century of extraordinary cinematography. Whether your passion is romantic comedy or art house, The Blue Angel or Blue Velvet, 1001 Movies is the book for you.

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Steven Jay Schneider, one of the true connoisseurs of movie horror, has written, talked, taught, and published extensively on all aspects of film, from aesthetics and psychoanalysis to the joys of the slasher flick. Here he has brought together over 50 of the finest writers, reviewers, critics, professors, aficionados, and filmmakers from across the globe.

From Le Monde's Jean-Michel Frodon in Paris to Undercurrent's Chris Fujiwara in Tokyo, the team comprises the best that film writing has to offer and includes contributors to Empire, Sight and Sound, Time Out, Rolling Stone, the New York Times, Total Film, International Film Guide, LA Weekly, CineAction, Film Quarterly, NME, the Washington Post, Filmmaker, Moviemaker, and many more.

Diane Fulkerson - Library Journal

Scholar and film critic Schneider has edited a highly informative and entertaining book about not-to-be-missed movies, equipped with approximately 800 movie stills and actors' photos. All 1001 entries are arranged chronologically, starting with Le voyage dans la lune, produced in 1902, and ending with Atonement from 2007. In between, readers will find films like Blazing Saddles, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and The Terminator. Each entry contains a sidebar that provides basic information about the film, including a list of cast members, the director, and the producer, plus any awards the movie has received. The main entry for each film contains a brief plot summary and an explanation of why the movie is significant in the history of film. The book concludes with genre and director indexes. When using the genre index, readers will find that a film may be listed under more than one genre. Raiders of the Lost Ark, for example, is listed both as an action and as an adventure film.